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Joe Biden: “Africa's going to have 50% of the world's population, I…”

Featuring: Joe Biden, Democrat | Former President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 21:33

I was able to put together Aukus, that is an alliance in Asia, Australia, Japan, the United States, India. I mean, the idea that we're in a situation where we've moved in a direction, that, for example, in Africa, Africa's going to have 50% of the world's population, I think, is by 2080. I can hear your passion. I can hear your anxiety that the world is changing the way it has. And for a long time, you believed. (21:33–21:45)

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Asserts that Africa will have 50% of the world's population by 2080.

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